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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does a low OOS acceptance rate make a school an elite public?  Isn't that merely a factor of state decisions to limit OOS applicants?

From UTK themselves:

The acceptance rate for in-state students is 65.7% — up from last year’s 59.4%. While in-state admittance grew, out-of-state students saw a 10% drop from last year to this year as only 23.7% of applicants were admitted for the fall 2024 semester — a move in line with the university’s goal of prioritizing admission for Tennessee residents.

In attempts to make UT more accessible to in-state students, the university has enacted a guaranteed admission policy that automatically grants admission to in-state students who are in the top 10% of their high school class or who have a calculated UT Core GPA of 4.0 or higher.[/quote]

In other words they have a system almost exactly like the one at UT-Austin, which is on the list of schools to which I think it's appropriate to compare UTK these days.[/quote]

Texas is top 6%

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Started as top 10% and gradually dropped as the rule generated more applications. Same will happen at UTK.[/quote]

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